Individual, couples, and family counseling in Charlottesville, in person and virtual.
New Beginnings Family Counseling Services is a Charlottesville practice offering individual, couples, and family counseling. Led by therapist Frances Greenstein, LPC, LMFT, a familiar and trusted name locally who serves on the Charlottesville Family Advisory Panel, she has provided therapeutic services in Charlottesville for more than 30 years. For families, it fills a real need: a local, licensed place to turn when a marriage hits a rough patch, a child is struggling with anxiety, or the whole household is trying to find its footing after a big change. Sessions are available both in the office and virtually, which makes it easier to actually get to an appointment in the middle of a busy family week.
What stands out is the breadth of what this practice helps with, and how much of it maps to ordinary family life. The listed areas of specialization include anxiety, depression, trauma, and marital issues, but also the everyday-but-hard categories: parenting challenges and life transitions. Those transitions are spelled out in a way parents will recognize, from becoming new parents, to young adults and college-age kids navigating new stages, to retirement, health struggles, and working through difficult challenges including illness, death, and divorce.
Greenstein’s depth shows in her training, too, with a background in Structural Family Therapy and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP). And the range of what the practice offers means a family can bring different needs to the same trusted counselor over time. A couple might come in for marital counseling; a teen might need individual support; parents might want help steadying the household through a loss or a divorce. Having one local, licensed therapist who works across individual, couples, and family sessions makes it easier to get consistent, coordinated support rather than starting over somewhere new each time life shifts.
Getting started is straightforward. You reach out by phone to set up an appointment, and you’ll complete a set of intake forms ahead of time, which the practice provides to download, print, and return. From there you decide whether it makes sense to meet in the office on East Jefferson Street or virtually. First sessions generally focus on understanding what brought you in and what you’re hoping for, whether that’s calmer mornings, a stronger marriage, or steadier support for a child. Because the practice covers individual, couples, and family work, the format can flex to fit who in the family needs to be in the room.
Individual counseling • Couples and marriage counseling • Family counseling • Support for anxiety, depression, and trauma • Help with parenting challenges • Support through life transitions (new parents, college-age young adults, retirement, illness, loss, divorce) • In-office and virtual sessions
Individual, couples, and family counseling in Charlottesville, in person and virtual.
